The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-06
VICTIMS OF THE FOURTH.
FATALITIES AND MISHAPS ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY.

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An 1mprovised Cannon Made Out OF
Gas Pipe Kills a Knight Of Labor
While on Parade-Old Sol Cutting Off
Two Hundred Lives Day in New
York
WASHINGTON, July 5.--Telegrams bring
remarkable list of casualties yesterday and
to-day, resulting from the celebration Of
the Fourth of July.
AT Columbus, O., three boys rugged up a
cannon made of gas pipe, loaded it with ten
drains of powder and fired it off. The
weapon tore from its fastenings and struck
Elisha Meacham, a delegate in the Knights
of Labor parade, tearing through his mouth
| and producing almost instant death.
At Chicago among the minor casualties it
| is noted that three small boys and four
young men received fatal injuries from the
| explosion of small cannons and the acci-
dental firing of revolvers.
THE VICIOUS TOY PISTOL.
Besides these there is an endless list of
| casualties not Immediately fatal. A great
many small boys are suffering from wounds
! inflicted by the famous ''toy" pistol. These,
| physicians say, are liable sooner or later TO
prove fatal. The firemen had an extremely
| busy time, there being forty alarms of fire
| from o'clock in the morning TO midnight.
| No great damage was done by any of the
| blazes
| At Watertown, N. Y, n portion of the
| Fourth of July fireworks display, which
| had been placed in position for firing, acci-
| dentally became ignited by sparks from a
| rocket, and big explosion followed. Four
| men on the stand at the time were injured,
| either by falling from the stand or being hit
| by explosives All will probably recover.
ROOF FALLS IN.
| At Susquehanna, Pa, the St. Johns
Catholic church held a picnic yesterday at
Beebe's Park. An immense crowd assembled
in the afternoon to witness a game Of ball
| between the Crickets and Hancocks. Before
the game commenced a large number of
boys crawled to the roof Of the dining
hall, when 1t suddenly collapsed bury
| ing those on the roof and those in
| side in the debris. The ruins were promptly
removed, bringing forth large number of
persons seriously injured Nobody was
killed but nine persons received serious in
juries from which several deaths are likely
| to result
Two murders occurred at Sunbury, Pa,
and young lady was killed at a railroad
station at Milton, Pa, whittier she had gone
TO meet some returning excursionists.
BURSTING CANNON.
At Wheeler, Mich, a cannon burst killing
Mr. Mills and seriously injuring several
| others, and at Ithaca, near Wheeler, fire
works exploded prematurely fatally injur-
ing Col. Snydecker and burning several
| others seriously.
At Chester, Pa, Miss Helen Van Ripper, of
Upland, who was so shockingly injured by
the pyrotechnic explosion last night, died to-
| day after most intense suffering.
At a picnic near Louisville, KY, yester-
day party of picnickers took refuge from
| a sudden thunder shower under huge syca-
| more tree. The tree was struck by light
ming, and two boys aged about IL years
each, were instantly killed. Several other
persons under and in the vicinity Of tho
tree were knocked down and for time par
alyzed None, however, were seriously in
jured.
SHOT BY A sALooNKEEPER.
At New York an .I-year-old boy did not
heed a demand 20 stop burning crackers in
front of John Flynn's liquor saloon, and
| Flynn shot at him three times. One OF the
shots broke the boys right leg in such
manner that he is not expected TO survive.
The mortality in New York from hot
weather begins to excite alarm. Yesterday
POO persons died, and to-day the deaths have
been 20S In number.
In Chicago John Feistbonner stabbed
John Orokner Sunday night. Orohner died
| from the wound this morning, and Feist-
bonner, realizing that his discovery was
only question of few hours, committed
! suicide by shooting himself ON the street
this morning. The motive of the murder Is
still a mystery.
TRAIN HANDS ATTACKED.
George Wortenbaker, brakeman on the
Washington, Alexandria and Frederioks-
burg railroad was killed at st. Asaphe STA
ton, about a mile from Alexandria, this
afternoon during fight between trainmen
and five drunken roughs, whom they were
attempting to eject from the cars. The men
are employees at brick yard at
Waterloo station, Va, and were al
lowed on board on their promise
to keep quiet. They soon became noisy and
refused TO leave the train, which was stop
ped at st. Asaphs and after hot fight the
men were put off. They then commenced
throwing stones, one of which hit Worten-
baker In the stomach, killing him almost
instantly. James L. Davis, the engineer,
was seriously cut about the head and one or
two others were slightly hurt. All of tha
men have been arrested.
At Hazleton, Pa, two miners from Der
ringer who had come to HaZleton to wit
ness the celebration, went home pretty
drunk. After reaching home they began
shooting with a revolver for the purpose of
making more noise. While thus celebrating
one shot his companion, killing him in
stantly. There was no reason for the shoot
ing other than sudden freak of the drunken
man.
BULLETS AMONG THE BLANKS.
CLEVELAND, o., July 5.-During a sham
battle at Delta, Fulton county, yesterday
morning Postmaster w. X. Huntington was
fatally shot. How bullets got in among
the blank cartridges nobody can explain.
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